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How Interactive Digital Signage Enhance Customer Experiences

Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention coming at them from all directions. […]

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Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:54 AM

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16:9: Holographic Display On Coming Smartphone A Precursor To Larger Digital Signage Versions?

A spin-off from HP Labs is working with RED – the high-def digital camera guys – to release a smartphone that features a holographic display – a glimpse at tech that also has digital signage touted as a use-case. Red Digital Cinema is working with Leia Inc on what’s being billed as the world’s first lightfield “holographic” smartphone – the HYDROGEN ONE. […]

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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:09 PM

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Luis Is Back From Holiday, And He’s Broke And (Still) Cranky

Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a long summer… and I have fully enjoyed it. I have worked half-days since early June, and taken about five weeks worth of holidays. If I have to go to the beach again, I will literally jump out a window. […]

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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:50 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Display Market Forecasted To Grow By 18% Annually: IHS Report

The digital signage display market is expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.2% over the next four years, with the biggest growth coming in displays that are 65-inches or larger. The forecast comes from research firm IHS Markit, one of a small handful of companies that actually invests real time, people and money studying this market. […]

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Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:14 PM

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Cruise Line Uses 25-Foot LED Vortex As Centerpiece

Here’s an interesting example of how three-dimensional visuals and crazy idea can be baked into content and served up on a very unusual display canvas – in this case the central court of a monster cruise ship. This is a 25 foot tall vortex-shaped LED column in the atrium of the Carnival Vista, a ship in the Carnival cruise line fleet that first set sail a year ago. […]

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Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 6:52 AM

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16:9: Chinese Restaurant Launches With Kiosks That Enable Ordering And Payment Via Facial Recognition

Self-service ordering stations on touch-driven displays are getting mainstreamed by giant QSRs like McDonald’s, but a Chinese company tied in with KFC is taking the tech a step further by building facial recognition and payments into the screens. […]

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Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:01 PM

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Columbus Convention Center Expansion Includes 7 by 60 Wide LED Wall

Turns out that 14-foot LED selfie head isn’t the only big digital feature turned on at the convention center in Columbus, Ohio. There’s also a 7-foot tall by 60 wide fine pitch LED wall in the building, put together by solutions provider Coffman Media and running Signagelive’s CMS. […]

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Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 10:26 AM

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16:9: Eyes Open For Giant 14-Foot LED Selfie Head At Columbus, OH Convention Center

I like how fine pitch, flexible LED is making for some highly creative displays – like this giant head that opened its eyes last night at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, Ohio. The LED head electronics were manufactured by SNA Displays, and the structure and integration was by Design Communications Ltd. […]

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Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:37 PM

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16:9: New InterContinental Uses E-Paper Counter Displays To Greet Guests

Putting tablets as small digital signs on hotel reception counters is not new, but the Slovenian tech firm Visionect has added some nice twists to the offer. This is the new five-star InterContinental Hotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital. […]

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Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:41 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Zach Klima, WaitTime

If your digital signage screens are there to make something faster, better or easier for the people who are looking at them, you are doing good things. […]

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Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: Auckland Airport’s Duty-Free Adds Digital End-Caps

This is the duty free at Auckland, NZ’s international airport – one of a pair of The Loop shops at the terminal equipped with some 70 screens. The system was put in by NZ-based solutions provider Hydro Media, which first did 40 digital screens into The Loop’s refurbished arrivals store last year. […]

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Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:29 PM

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16:9: The Towering Faces In Chicago’s Millennium Park Have Had Some Work Done

The giant LED towers in Chicago’s Millennium Park have had an upgrade, replacing the original LED set-up with newer display tech, while retaining the integrity of the iconic public art piece. […]

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Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:30 AM

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Meeting Room Signs Business On Big Growth Curve

Traffic on a baby sister site to 16:9 – called MeetingRoomSigns.biz – has grown steadily since its launch in early 2016, as have the leads that come in from a form and then get kicked to site sponsors. […]

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Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:45 PM

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Atlanta’s Giant 360 Halo LED Display Getting First Use This Weekend

Pro football’s Atlanta Falcons play their first game at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, underneath what is billed as the largest non-transparent LED video display in the world The 360-degree halo display installed above the field is 58 ft tall by 1,075 ft long, and has more than 37 million LEDs. In square feet, it is 62,000 sq. ft. […]

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Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:40 AM

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16:9: Clever Virtual Curtains Used Ahead Of Monster LED Board Reveal

Maybe other companies have done this … dunno … but thought this is a pretty clever way to set up a reveal of a new LED spectacular sign. A monster wraparound LED board at 20 Times Square switches on this evening, and the manufacturer behind it, SNA Displays, has content that shows virtual curtains, which I assume are moving subtly. Clever. […]

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Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:32 AM

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